• Consortia of ~50 companies (mostly pharma and biotech)
• Mission: R Validation Hub is a cross-industry initiative whose mission is to enable the use of R by the Bio-Pharmaceutical industry in a regulatory setting, where the output may be used in submissions to regulatory agencies.

is a framework to quantify an R package’s “risk” by assessing several meaningful metrics designed to evaluate package development best practices, code documentation, community engagement, and development sustainability.

is a full-fledged R package containing a shiny front-end that augments the utility of riskmetric. The application’s goal is to provide a central hub for an organization to review and assess the risk of R packages, providing handy tools and guide rails along the way.

• A license
• Source code available for browsing
• An easy to contact maintainer
• A place to report bugs
• Evidence that new bugs are being addressed
• Complete Function documentation
• Adequate test coverage
• Community usage
• Many more!

• Analyze riskmetric output without the need to write R code
• Run riskmetric on the same machine with the same environment – creating central hub for reproducibility of risk scores
• Facilitate and store communication on certain packages / metrics
• Automatic package categorization with an overall decision based on riskmetric scores
• Generate dynamic reports
• Leverage user authentication with user role management

• riskscore

in it’s early stages, a new data package the R Validation Hub is working on, that contains the riskmetric scores for all pkgs on CRAN.

• Package Explorer

include GSK’s code to manually navigate the actual package contents (e.g. browse the robustness of tests written for each function).